DR J. F. STEINHAEUSER. 



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Erushard, I.N., to convoy us, knowing how much 

 importance Orientals attach to appearances — 

 especially to first appearances. My 6 father 9 

 Erushard gained nothing by the voyage but the 

 loss of his pay ; therefore is my gratitude to him 

 the greater. Nor must I forget to record the 

 obliging aid of Mr, now Sir Henry L. Anderson, 

 Secretary to the Government of Bombay ; he 

 enabled us to borrow from the public stores a 

 chronometer, surveying instruments, and other 

 necessaries. 



Judging that a medical officer would be use- 

 ful, not only to the members of the expedition, 

 but would also prove valuable in lands where the 

 art of healing is not held destructive, and where 

 Medici are not called 6 Caucifici et Sanicidse,' 

 Lord Elphinstone also detached the late Dr J. 

 E. Steinhaeuser, then staff-surgeon, to accompany 

 us. Unfortunately the order came too late. No 

 merchantman happened then to be leaving Aden 

 for Zanzibar, and during the south-west mon- 

 soon native craft will not attempt the perilous 

 passage. Nothing daunted, my old and tried 

 friend crossed the Straits to Berberah, with the 

 gallant project of marching down country to join 

 us in the south ; nor did he desist till it became 

 evident, from his slow rate of progress, that he 



